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In case you missed it… A brief look back at news from the past week.
Diversity and inclusion Capital Crossroads launched a new effort to improve diversity and inclusion in its own operations, and to …
Here’s a list of local people in the March 2 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …
The ask was relatively small, as these things go, up to $48,000, and the cause seemed reasonable: Nikki Syverson, director of Capital Crossroads, was seeking the money to round out the funding for an effort …
For the last two weeks, this column has dug into the details of two very different but very visible social media blow-ups and how the brands (Crock-Pot and Old Navy) dealt with the unexpected spotlight.…
Tuesday, March 6, will be a historic day for Des Moines. It’s when residents of the city, rural Polk County and nine contiguous suburbs — Altoona, Bondurant, Clive, Grimes, Johnston, Pleasant Hill, Urbandale, West Des …
Who you are makes all the difference in the world.
Or so it seems.
Two examples illustrate this fact of modern-day life in our United States.
If you walk up to someone in Iowa and demand …
Like the children it helps guide through the public school system, Children and Family Urban Movement can dream big about its future.
Earlier this week, the Des Moines City Council approved a land sale to …
Talk to anyone about challenges in the business community and the answer comes across loud and clear: Workforce. Iowa needs more skilled workers, more highly educated workers, and simply just more workers with the latest …
Kent Darr recently spoke to Matt Felling, the new general manager of the soon-to-open Hilton Des Moines Downtown, for a Closer Look article. But it left me hanging. It turns out he’s been in the …
An initiative that began in 2004 to help smaller colleges and universities in Greater Des Moines connect with employers still hosts regular meetings every other month with an aim toward addressing a perennial Iowa challenge: …
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